Director: Faythe Levine Handmade Nation is a documentary film about the modern D.I.Y. crafting community directed by one of its own – Faythe Levine (founder of Milwaukee’s independent craft fair Art vs. Craft as well as co-owner and curator of Paper Boat Boutique & Gallery). Levine traveled almost 20,000 miles and interviewed countless craftsters and crafty business owners across the United States to document the seemingly all-encompassing crafting community. There has been significant growth in the D.I.Y. crafting movement during the last decade, primarily because of the craftsters’ willingness to share ideas and encourage each other by networking on the internet and at independent marketplaces (boutiques, galleries, craft fairs, fashion shows, etc.). Before 2000, when one thought of crafts there was immediately a quaint and simple image of a blue-haired old lady crocheting or quilting with a cat curled up on her lap. Think about it - most women...
- 9/15/2009
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
In 2006, Milkwaukee-based artist and entreprenuer Faythe Levine took up a camera and struck out to document what she calls "the new wave of art, craft and design" in America. What resulted is Handmade Nation, a documentary chronicling the work of a country-wide community of boutique owners, subversive stitchers, puckish printmakers and feisty knitters, which will see a number of feature-length screenings this winter.
- 1/16/2009
- Pastemagazine.com
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